GOLDEN MOUNTAINS

11/11/13

Trip to the TULCA festival gallery (Fairgreen)

I love going round galleries; but it definitely has some negatives and positives for me as doing it as part of a 'trip'.   I may as well explore them here....who knows maybe my views will change over the course?

In relation to going as a group instead of singularly....

My current negatives:

The waiting for everyone (to arrive and leave)
The crowd..it didn't effect the viewing of all the works; but definitely some of them
Noise

My current positives:


We were the first tour, that was pretty cool!
The tour and inside information
The artists talks- first hand accounts
A shared experience-different viewpoints and discussion



Joanna met us and gave us an introductory talk and explained about not taking photo's.  She introduced us to the first exhibit, The Speedy Telstar, by Neal White and Tina O'Connell. It was inspired by the computer museum in Galway...I took the kids there a few years ago and we all really enjoyed it including the lively talk by Brendan Smith whose baby it is!
All photo's therefore are from the official TULCA photo's.



Quoted from TULCA website, artist information

"Emma Finn currently lives and works in Edinburgh, UK but was born in Galway, Ireland. She recently graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA (Hons) in Intermedia. Finn also holds a BA (Hons) in Psychological Studies and Classical Civilisation from the National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland. She has exhibited in the UK and Ireland and has been selected for The Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries 2014. Recently, Finn was awarded the RSA John Kinross Travel Scholarship to Florence."
"Nuala Ní Fhlathúin is from the Gaeltacht area in the West of Ireland. She received a BFA in Ceramics from GMIT, Galway and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her work has been exhibited in Ireland, the USA, Portugal and Georgia. She also edits Nua-Ealaín, an Irish language website for the contemporary visual arts."

I loved hearing from Emma Finn and Nuala Ní Fhlathúin about their work.  Emma's was a video piece called More or Less.  It was HD DVD on a 10 minute loop.  As there were so many of us it was impossible to watch it properly at the time; but I will be visiting all the venues myself anyway.  She seems to work very quickly in her chosen area from what she said, that suprised me.  I also found it very interesting to hear both artist talk about what inspired them.

Nuala's installation was called ...agus thuig mé ansin/...and then I knew.  She explained how it was very site specific, so again the installation had been constructed in a relatively short amount of time ( afew weeks).  It was great to walk around the pieces and see how they related, or didn't relate, to those around them.  The lack of emotion aspect struck a chord with me as my own family showed very little emotion and I think if the events of an Agatha Christie book had occured there would have been a similar atmosphere!

 

I really enjoyed most of this experiece...thank you!